Being the author of Arrow (Alice James Books, 2020) Sumita Chakraborty is a poet, essayist, and scholar whose in-progress academic monograph Grave Dangers, is a study of poetics, ethics, and death in the Anthropocene.
Being the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Foundation and Kundiman, she has been selected for top Best Single Poems by the Forward Arts Foundation.
The fastest way to change society is to mobilize the women of the World.
-Charles Malik
Sumita is the Poem-a-Day Guest Editor for May 2021, and the Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Poetry at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she teaches in literary studies and creative writing.
Let's read one of her poems:-
O Spirit
A bear brings forth her young informous and unshapen.
I now wear the pelt of the conjured beast around my groin.
I think of new words for solace,
one of which is knifed.
We take no form until licked into shape
by the tongues of those who love us.